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Kurt Russell

One of the most iconic action stars of all time, Kurt Russell (born March 17th, 1951) is among the few to make the successful transition from child star to successful adult actor. As a youth, Russell aspired to follow the footsteps of his father, Bing Russell, who, in addition to being a big league baseball player, was also an actor (he was perhaps best known for his role as the sheriff on the TV Western Bonanza). That his heroes Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris did the same thing only strengthened Russell's resolve to have both a baseball and acting career.He first broke into acting on television, starring in the series The Travels of Jamie McPheeters, and he made his film debut playing the boy who kicks Elvis in the 1963 Elvis Presley vehicle It Happened at the World's Fair. After signing a ten-year contract with Disney, Russell got his big break as a juvenile actor in 1966, starring opposite Fred MacMurray in Disney's live-action feature Follow Me Boys! His association with the studio lasted through 1975, and produced such comedic family movies as The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968), The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), The Barefoot Executive (1971), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). The last film marked Russell's final collaboration with Disney, aside from his voicing the character of Copper in the studio's The Fox and the Hound (1981). Still an avid baseball enthusiast during those years, Russell nurtured his dreams of becoming a professional ball player until a shoulder injury permanently changed his plans.After ending his association with Disney, Russell disappeared from features for a few years. He appeared in a few television movies, most notably playing the title role in Elvis, John Carpenter's made-for-television biopic. His next role as a sleazy used car salesman in Robert Zemeckis' hilariously caustic Used Cars (1980) allowed him to counter his wholesome, all-American nice guy image, and prove that he was an actor of untapped range. Director Carpenter recognized this and cast Russell as ruthless mercenary Snake Plissken in his brooding sci-fi/action film Escape From New York (1981). The role would prove to be one of legendary status, and one that would cement Russell as a cult hero for generations to come. Carpenter also cast Russell as a scientist stranded in the Antarctic in his chilling 1982 remake of The Thing. Realizing that his characters were larger than life, Russell typically played them with a subtle tongue- in-cheek quality. He also used this comic intuition in comedies like 1987's Overboard, in which he starred alongside his long-time life-partner and mother of his child Golide Hawn.In 1983, Russell moved to serious drama, playing opposite Cher and Meryl Streep in Silkwood. The success of that film helped him break into a more mainstream arena, and he was later able to win praise for his dramatic work in such films as Swing Shift (1984), Tequila Sunrise (1988), and Winter People (1989). However, it is with his performances in action films that Russell remains most widely associated. He has appeared in a number of such films, all of disparate quality. Some of Russell's more memorable projects include Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Tango and Cash (1989), Backdraft (1991), Tombstone (1993), and Executive Decision (1996). In 1996, he reprised his Snake Plissken character for Carpenter's Escape From L.A. The following year, he starred opposite Kathleen Quinlan in the revenge thriller Breakdown before returning to the sci-fi/action realm with Soldier in 1998. It would be two years before movie-going audiences would again catch a glimpse of Russell, though with his roles in 2000 Miles to Graceland (again carrying on the Elvis associations that have haunted his career) and Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky, the versatile actor proved that he was still very much on the scene. Is some of Russell's later day roles had stressed the action angle a bit more than the more dramatic aspects of the stories,

Quotes from Kurt Russell's Characters

Yeah, Warren, that's the problem with old men. You can kick 'em down the stairs, and say it's an accident, but you can't just shoot 'em.

Daisy Domergue:

John Ruth!

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Yeah?

Daisy Domergue:

Can I play that guitar over there ?

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Yeah. You come back with anything else but a guitar, my pistol plays a tune; Domergue's Death March.
You got it?

Daisy Domergue:

Yeah-yeah-yeah. I got it.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

That's the trouble with old people. You can push them down the stairs and pretend it's an accident, but you just can't shoot 'em.

Chris Mannix:

Well, like I said friend, you got me at a bit of a disadvantage.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Keeping you at a disadvantage is an advantage I intend to keep.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

You only need to hang mean bastards, but Mean Bastards, you-need-to-hang!

Chris Mannix:

Well, like I said friend, you got me at a bit of a disadvantage.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Keeping you at a disadvantage is an advantage I intend to keep.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Nobody said the job was gonna be easy

Maj. Marquis Warren:

Nobody said it was that hard either!

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Now Daisy, I want us to work out a..signal system of communication. When I elbow you real hard in the face; that means SHUT UP!

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Now Daisy, I want us to work out a..signal system of communication. When I elbow you real hard in the face; that means shut up!

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

No offense, cowboy-fella, just gettin' your attention.

Joe Gage:

Yeah well, you got it.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Whatchyu writin' friend?

Joe Gage:

The only thing I'm qualified to write about.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

What's that?

Joe Gage:

My life story.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

You're writing your life story..?

Joe Gage:

You bet I am.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Am I init?

Joe Gage:

....you just entered it.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

One of them fellas, is NOT what he-says-he-is.

O.B. Jackson:

What is he?

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

He's in cahoots with this one, that's what he is. One of them.. or maybe even two of them is here to see Domergue goes free.

Maj. Marquis Warren:

Are you sure you ain't just being paranoid?

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

Our best bet is this duplicitous fella ain't as cool a customer as Daisy here. He won't have the leather patience it takes to just sit here and wait. If he can't handle it, he'll stop waiting. He'll try and create his opportunity.. And that's when Mr.Jumpy reveals hisself!

Maj. Marquis Warren:

What do you got to say about all this?

Daisy Domergue:

What do I got to say? About John Ruth's ravings? He's ABSOLUTELY right! Me and one of them fellas is in cahoots! And we're just waitin' for everybody to go to sleep; that's when we gonna kill y'all.

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

This here is Daisy Domergue. She's wanted dead or alive for murder, so when that sun comes out, I'm taking this woman to hell!

John "The Hangman" Ruth:

One of these men is not what he says he is.

Chicory:

That tea smells gruesome.

Sheriff Franklin Hunt:

That's because it's soup.

Chicory:

Oh! Can I have some?!

Chicory:

Oh! Can I have some?

Sheriff Franklin Hunt:

Say goodbye to my wife. I'll say hello to yours.

Sheriff Franklin Hunt:

If we go into hostile territory, foggy with exhaustion, we won't rescue anyone.

Sheriff Franklin Hunt:

We're making a 5 day journey in 3 days, sleeping the minimum to ride as much as possible.

Sheriff Franklin Hunt:

In civilized towns you look a man direct in the face when you talk to him.

Stephen McCaffrey:

You go, we go!

Jack Burton:

You people sit tight, hold the fort and keep the home fires burning. And if we're not back by dawn... call the president.

R.J. MacReady:

Why don't we just wait here for a little while, see what happens?

Gabe Cash:

I don't know about you, but I have an aversion to getting F.U.B.A.R.

Ray Tango:

What's fubar?

Gabe Cash:

Fucked-Up Beyond All Recognition.

Dylan Johns:

Do you miss being mayor?

Robert Ramsey:

Do you ever win?

Cale Crane:

She'll never race again?

Ben Crane:

No, honey. But she might walk again.

Ben Crane:

(to Pop Crane) How about it, Pop?

Ben Crane:

How about it, Pop?

Ben Crane:

(to Palmer) I'll take the six thousand and the horse.

Ben Crane:

I'll take the six thousand and the horse.

Cale Crane:

I like him.

Ben Crane:

Her... I like her too.

Lilly Crane:

You know that you've been promisin' her for months that you would take her to work with you.

Ben Crane:

And I will. I will, Lil. But not today, honey. I got a big race.

Lilly Crane:

Well, what am I supposed to tell her?

Ben Crane:

I don't know. You tell her that I was runnin' late, and I just didn't have time to wait for her.

Lilly Crane:

You tell her.

Ben Crane:

Honey, I'm goin' to work.

Ben Crane:

What were you doin'? She... she's not a pet, Cale. She's what I do for work now, so you're gonna have to leave her be, alright?

Cale Crane:

Sorry.

Ben Crane:

You've ever seen a kid so happy with a horse?

Pop Crane:

Yeah, I have.

Balon:

She's gettin' faster and faster.

Ben Crane:

You're sayin' that she can race?

Stuntman Mike:

The alcohol is just a lubricant for the individual for the individual encounters that a bar room offers

Stuntman Mike:

The alcohol is just a lubricant for the individual for the individual encounters that a bar room offers.

Garry:

This is pure nonsense. It doesn't prove a thing.

MacReady:

I thought you'd feel that way, Garry. You were the only one that could've gotten to that blood. We'll do you last.

Martin Harvey:

Slow down! There's boats all over the place!

Captain Ron:

Don't worry. They'll get out of the way. I learned that driving the Saratoga.

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

Well, I guess we better send the ol' ball and chain out to buy us more.

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

Well uh... yeah, there was that time you were working at Burger Boy, and this kid started choking on a French fry, and everybody in the place panicked, including me, except you, you knew exactly what to do. You ran over to the kid and you gave him that Heimlech, you know.

Joanna Stayton/"Annie Proffitt":

ANNIE GOOLAHEY...where in God's name did I grow up, Dogpatch?

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

No, not there honey over in Goober, Idaho but it's a nuclear waste dump.

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

Zippedy Doo-Dah. Zippedy Yay. My, oh my, I got a wonderful slave.

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

You know what your problem is? You are so goddamn bored, you have to *invent* things to bitch about! You don't have a single thing to do on this earth except for your hair! The closet was fine, you just needed something to fill up your useless, nail-polishing, toe-polishing, rich bitch, sun-tanning days!

Joanna Stayton/"Annie Proffitt":

Well, the entire civilized world knows that ALL closets are made of CEDAR.

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

[in a backwoods accent] Well up here in Elk Snout ma'am see we don't know 'bout them closets, nor bathrooms neither. Shit woman, you're lucky I am house broke.

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

Yeah, well... that's 'cause we used to do it in the closet.

Joanna Stayton/"Annie Proffitt":

Oh stop with the sex stories.

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

That's something you like to do, go fishing for oysters at night

Joanna Stayton/"Annie Proffitt":

Oysters in a cold ocean at night, doesn't sound like me!

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

Couldn't call it a date really, we just did it in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

Couldn't call it a date really, we just did it in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven.

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

You jumped my bones the first night we met!

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

Billy, there is a God and he loves me!

MacReady:

talking into his tape recorder) - I'm going to hide this tape when I'm finished. If none of us make it, at least there will be some kind of record. The storm's been hitting us hard now for 48 hours. We still have nothing to go on. One other thing: I think it rips through your clothes when it takes you over. Windows found some shredded and bloody long-johns in the trash but the name tag was missing. They could be anybody's. Nobody,nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired. There's nothing more I can do, just wait. This is R.J. MacReady, helicopter pilot, US outpost #31.

MacReady:

[talking into his tape recorder] I'm going to hide this tape when I'm finished. If none of us make it, at least there will be some kind of record. The storm's been hitting us hard now for 48 hours. We still have nothing to go on. One other thing: I think it rips through your clothes when it takes you over. Windows found some shredded and bloody long-johns in the trash but the name tag was missing. They could be anybody's. Nobody,nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired. There's nothing more I can do, just wait. This is R.J. MacReady, helicopter pilot, US outpost #31.

MacReady:

anybody touches me and we go

MacReady:

Anybody touches me, and we go.

MacReady:

We're gonna draw a little bit of everyone's blood, 'cause we're gonna find out who's the Thing. Watching Norris in there gave me the idea that every little part of him was a whole. Every little piece was an individual animal with a built-in desire to protect its own life. You see, when a man bleeds, it's just tissue. But blood from one of you Things won't obey when it's attacked. It'll try and survive. Crawl away from a hot needle, say.

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye, and asks you if you paid your dues; you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have you paid your dues, Jack? Yes sir, the check is in the mail."

Jack Burton:

When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, looks you crooked in the eye, and asks you if you paid your dues; you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: 'Have you paid your dues, Jack? Yes sir, the check is in the mail.'

Wyatt Earp:

NOOOOOO!!!!

Wyatt Earp:

NO!

Jack Burton:

You just listen to the old Pork Chop Express here now and take his advice on a dark and stormy night when the lightning's crashin' and the thunder's rollin' and the rain's coming down in sheets thick as lead. Just remember what old Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."

Jack Burton:

You just listen to the old Pork Chop Express here now and take his advice on a dark and stormy night when the lightning's crashin' and the thunder's rollin' and the rain's coming down in sheets thick as lead. Just remember what old Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right square in the eye and he says, 'Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it.'

Jack Burton:

Well, you see I'm not saying that I've been everywhere and I done everything. But I do know it's a pretty amazing planet we live on here, and a man would have to be some kind of fool to think we're all alone in this universe.

Herb Brooks:

Great moments are born from great opportunity.

Ray Tango:

When this is over, we have to pay Jabba the Hutt here a visit.

Gabe Cash:

I'll bring the chainsaw.

Ray Tango:

I'll bring the beer.

Captain Ron:

They're just playing "Hide the Salami"

Captain Ron:

They're just playing 'Hide the Salami'.

Captain Ron:

It's just a squall, they come on ya fast and they leave ya fast.

Snake Plissken:

Welcome to the human race.

Garry:

This is pure nonsense. Doesn't prove a thing.

MacReady:

I thought you'd feel that way, Garry. You were the only one who could've gotten to that blood. We'll do you last.

Nauls:

Where we going?

MacReady:

Up to my shack.

Nauls:

What the hell for?

MacReady:

'Cuz when I left yesterday I turned the lights off.

MacReady:

There's a storm hitting us in six hours, and we're gonna find out who's who.

Jack Burton:

It's all in the reflexes.

Stuntman Mike:

ladies!!! now that was fun, well see ya!

Stuntman Mike:

[catches his breath] Ohhh, ladies that was fun!

MacReady:

Cheatin' bitch.

MacReady:

Poor baby, your startin' to lose it, aren't yah?

Stuntman Mike:

Well damn if you ain't so sweet you make salt taste just like sugar.

Stuntman Mike:

Well damn if you ain't so sweet you make sugar taste just like salt.

Bob Hauk:

There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board.

[after the President orders Snake executed] On my command... FIRE! [the soldiers open fire, without effect. Malloy grabs a rifle, walks up to Snake, and swings the butt through his body]

Brazen:

He's not even *here*! He's a hologram!

Snake Plissken:

Catches on quick, doesn't she?

Bob Hauk:

We'd make one hell of a team Snake

Bob Hauk:

We'd make one hell of a team Snake.

Snake Plissken:

It's Plissken

Snake Plissken:

It's Plissken.

Snake Plissken:

The name's Plissken.

Johnny Tyler:

You run your mouth awful reckless for a man that don't go heeled.

Wyatt Earp:

No need to go heeled to get the bulge on a tub like you.

Michael Carr:

What's it going to take to convince you? Me in a body bag?!

Sandra:

Sgt. Todd... what's it like? What's it like being a soldier? What do you think about?
[silence] You must think about something?
[silence] What about feelings then?
[silence] You must *feel* something?
[pause]

Todd:

Fear.

Sandra:

Fear?

Todd:

Fear and discipline.

Sandra:

Now?

Todd:

Always.

Jack Burton:

I'm a reasonable guy. But, I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

Tod:

Copper, you're my very best friend.

Copper:

And you're mine too, Tod.

MacReady:

Someone in this camp ain't who what he appears to be.

MacReady:

Someone in this camp ain't what he appears to be.

Wyatt Earp:

You tell him I'm comin'....and Hell's comin' with me!

MacReady:

I think that we should heat things up a little.

Wang Chi:

Ready Jack?

Jack Burton:

I was born ready! (--- any chance I could become a super reviewer? :) ---)

Jack Burton:

I was born ready!

Snake Plissken:

Call me Snake.

MacReady:

Yeah, fuck you too!

Brain:

Swear to God Snake, I thought you were dead...

Snake Plissken:

Yeah, you and everybody else!

Bob Hauk:

You going to kill me, Snake?

Snake Plissken:

Not now, I'm too tired. [pause] Maybe later.

Girl in Chock Full O'Nuts:

You're a cop!

Snake Plissken:

I'm an asshole...

Bob Hauk:

Remember, once you're inside you're on your own.

Snake Plissken:

Oh, you mean I can't count on you?

Bob Hauk:

No.

Snake Plissken:

Good!

Bob Hauk:

Plissken? Plissken, what are you doing?

Snake Plissken:

Playing with myself! I'm going in.

Bob Hauk:

I'm not a fool, Plissken!

Snake Plissken:

Call me "Snake."

Snake Plissken:

Call me 'Snake.'

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

handsome, sexy and can probably deliver what most nerds can't!!!

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

Handsome, sexy and can probably deliver what most nerds can't!

MacReady:

You really wanna save those crazy swedes.

MacReady:

Mac wants a flamethrower!

Reno Hightower:

Half these people came here tonight, Jack, to watch you catch ball. The other half came to see you drop it. You drop that damn thing again, Jack, your life is over.

MacReady:

We're gonna draw a little bit of everyone's blood, 'cause we're gonna find out who's the Thing. Watching Norris in there gave me the idea that every little part of him was a whole. Every little piece was an individual animal with a built-in desire to protect its own life. You see, when a man bleeds, it's just tissue. But blood from one of you Things won't obey when it's attacked. It'll try and survive. Crawl away from a hot needle, say.

Alan Delour:

[on the phone with Anderson] Ever try to describe a-a smell?

Malcolm Anderson:

[pauses]...Why?

Alan Delour:

Ummm......You're going to smell something that's going to test your writing abilities. It has a sweetness to it, and uh,..at the same time it reaches into your body and twists your insides. But the odd thing is that once you smell it, you know exactly what it is, without having to look. 651, Nautilus,...got that?

Michael Zane:

I'll splatter cherry pie all over the wall behide you.

Martin Swayzak:

You see that glow in the corner of your eye. It's your career dissapation light and it's going into overtime.

Stephen McCaffrey:

If anyone's lights are about to go out, believe me they are yours.

Stephen McCaffrey:

[Steven enters after having saved a child from the fire] Man, that was pretty crazy, huh?

Brian McCaffrey:

I waited. I would've waited.

Stephen McCaffrey:

Come on, don't worry about it.

Brian McCaffrey:

But you did it man. You did it all the way. You were really a hero.

Stephen McCaffrey:

Brian... its not about being a hero. I went in because there was a kid up there. I do what I do because that's my way. And it was Dad's way. Maybe it's not everybody's way.

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

I loved it. Refreshing not like the new stuff. Give me the good oldies anytime. New movies Bah!!!

Dean Proffitt Carpenter:

I loved it. Refreshing not like the new stuff. Give me the good oldies anytime. New movies Bah!

Stuntman Mike:

Cheers, Butterfly. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. And I have promises to keep. Miles to go before I sleep. Did you hear me, Butterfly? Miles to go, before you sleep.